| Description |
xxiii, 676 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [573]-642) and index. |
| Contents |
The first philosopher -- The soul of reason -- The mind of God -- The doctor's son -- Good citizen or philosopher king? -- The inheritors : philosophy in the Hellenistic age -- Knowledge is power -- Hole in the soul : Plato and Aristotle in Rome -- Dancing in the light -- Christ is come : Platonism and Christianity -- Toward the Heavenly City -- Inquiring minds : Aristotle strikes back -- Celestial harmonies : Plato in the Middle Ages -- At the summit : Arabs, Aristotle, and Saint Thomas Aquinas -- The razor's edge -- The paradoxes of liberty -- The creative ascent : Plato in the high Renaissance -- Twilight of the scholastics : the reformation and the doom of Aristotle -- Secrets of the heavens : Plato, Galileo, and the new science -- Aristotle's in a periwig : the culture of the enlightenment -- Starting over : Plato, Rousseau, and revolution -- "Feeling is all" : the triumph of the Romantics -- Victorian crossroads : Hegel, Marx, and Mill -- The scale of nature : Darwin, evolution, and the mind of Aristotle -- Unseen worlds : physics, relativity, and the new world picture -- Triumph of the will : Nietsche and the death of reason -- Common sense nation : Plato, Aristotle, and American exceptionalism -- Worlds at war : Plato and Aristotle in the violent century. |
| Summary |
A history of the influential rivalry between Plato and Aristotle traces the Western world's ongoing battle of ideas to their competing philosophies, demonstrating how their contrasting views on everything became the twin fountainheads of Western culture. |
| Subject |
Plato -- Influence.
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Aristotle -- Influence.
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Civilization, Western -- Greek influences.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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| Added Title |
The cave & the light. |
| ISBN |
9780553807301 (acid-free paper) |
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0553807307 (acid-free paper) |
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